Saturday, April 3 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Beacon E

Session 140:
Internal Migration in Developed Countries

Chair: Gordon F. De Jong, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Richard Bilsborrow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1. The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration DecisionsJames R. Walker, Ohio State University ; John Kennan, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  2. Why Poor Families Move: Welfare Rules, Life Course Transitions, and Local Area Economic ExplanationsDeborah Roempke Graefe, Pennsylvania State University

  3. State Policy and Local Residential Sorting: Are Tiebout Voters Hobbled?Martin P. Farnham, University of Michigan ; Purvi Sevak, City University of New York

  4. Barriers to Leaving the Barrio: Patterns and Determinants of Inter-Neighborhood Residential Mobility among U.S. LatinosScott J. South, University at Albany, State University of New York ; Kyle D. Crowder, Western Washington University ; Erick Chavez, University at Albany, State University of New York

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